Romano Guardini Quotes

The Transfiguration is the summer lightning of the coming Resurrection. Also of our own resurrection, for we too are to partake ~ Romano Guardini

Truth is power, but only when one has patience and requires of it no immediate effect. And one must have no specific aims. Somehow, lack of an agenda is the greatest power. Sometimes it is better not to think in terms of plans; here months may mean nothing, and also years. Truth must be sought for its own sake, its holy, divine greatness. ~ Romano Guardini

To know Christ entails accepting his will as norm. When we feel this we draw back, startled for it means the cross. The it is better to say honestly: "I can't yet," than to mouth pious phrases. Slow there with the large words "self-suffender," and "sacrifice." It is better to admit our weakness and ask him to teach us strength. ~ Romano Guardini

and Jesus advanced in wisdom and age and grace with God and men" (Luke 2:52), ~ Romano Guardini

In the Sermon on the Mount, the Lord says: "Therefore, if thou art offering thy gift at the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother has anything against thee, leave thy gift before the altar and go first to be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift" (Matt. 5:23-24). This means: When you go to Mass and you recall that you have been unjust to someone and that he bears you a grudge, you cannot simply walk into church as though nothing were wrong. For then you would be entering only the physical room of the building, not the congregation, which would not receive you, as you would destroy it by your mere presence. ~ Romano Guardini

We must not oppose what is new and try to preserve a beautiful world that is inevitably perishing. Nor should we try to build a new world of the creative imagination that will show none of the damage of what is actually evolving. Rather, we must transform what is coming to be. But we can do this only if we honestly say yes to it and yet with incorruptible hearts remain aware of all that is destructive and nonhuman in it. Our age has been given to us as the soil on which to stand and the task to master. ~ Romano Guardini

The word is a thing of mystery, so volatile that it vanishes almost on the lip, yet so powerful that it decides fates and determines the meaning of existence. A frail structure shaped by fleeting sound, it yet contains the eternal: truth. Words come from within, rising as sounds fashioned by the organs of a man's body, as expressions of his heart and spirit. He utters them, yet he does not create them, for they already existed independently of him. One word is related to another; together they form the great unity of language, that empire of truth-forms in which a man lives. ~ Romano Guardini

What can convince modern man is not a historical or a psychological or a continually ever modernizing Christianity but only the unrestricted and uninterrupted message of Revelation. ~ Romano Guardini

Asceticism means that a man resolves to live as a man. ~ Romano Guardini

Essentially a soldier, the Christian is always on the lookout. ~ Romano Guardini

The idea that everyone is strong enough to bear immediate contact with God is false, and conceivable only by an age that has forgotten what it means to stand in the direct ray of divine power, that substitutes sentimental religious 'experience' for the overwhelming reality of God's presence. To claim that everyone could and should be exposed to that reality is sacrilegious. ~ Romano Guardini

As one candle is lit from the flame of another, so is faith kindled by faith. ~ Romano Guardini

That Jesus' task "is consummated" must be true, because he says so (John 19:30). Yet what a spectacle of failure! His word rejected, his message misunderstood, his commands ignored. None the less, his appointed task is accomplished, through obedience to the death - that obedience whose purity counterbalances the sins of a world. That Jesus delivered his message is what counts - not the world's reaction; and once proclaimed, that message can never be silenced, but will knock on men's hearts to the last day. ~ Romano Guardini

We are the archenemy of our own salvation, and the Shepherd must fight first of all with us - for us. ~ Romano Guardini

There are times when the welfare system may appear as an impediment to growth. Yet the drive for growth should always bear in mind the fact that people also need security ~ Romano Prodi

I am like Hugh Hefner minus anything good about his life. ~ Ray Romano

I also never went there when I was little because I was too busy working and traveling on national tours. ~ Christy Romano

I love hitting into the rough because it gets me close to the people. ~ Ray Romano

The only thing I miss from the sitcom format is that immediate gratification of when you're, if we're talking about comedy, of the live audience. ~ Ray Romano

I came from an Italian house. The refrigerator was always full. I never knew you had to buy food. I thought there were food fairies that came at night. ~ Ray Romano

I do know its important to keep the romantic spark alive in your marriage. But with four kids, sometimes it's enough just to keep yourself alive. ~ Ray Romano

I don't get sick. ~ Ray Romano

To my fellow nominees, whoever they are - I'm not that familiar with their work - I just want to say, there's always next year - except, you know, for Ray Romano . ~ Tony Shalhoub

The first time I played golf was in Flushing Meadows, Queens, when I was about 16 or 17. They had an 18-hole pitch-and-putt. My buddies and I would hop the fence and sneak on and play. ~ Ray Romano

Just like Tim Robbins is very political - and obviously, Arnold Schwarzenegger must be - I want to be able to have this public personality that's considered authoritative. ~ Christy Romano

I told Seven the Bartender that true love is felonious.

"Not if they're over eighteen," he said, shutting the till of the cash register.

By then the bar itself had become an appendage, a second torso holding up my first. "You take someone's breath away," I stressed. "You rob them of the ability to utter a single word." I tipped the neck of the empty liquor bottle toward him. "You steal a heart."

He wiped up in front of me with a dishrag. "Any judge would toss that case out on its ass."

"You'd be surprised."

Seven spread the rag out on the brass bar to dry. "Sounds like a misdemeanor, if you ask me."

I rested my cheek on the cool, damp wood. "No way," I said. "Once you're in, it's for life. ~ Jodi Picoult

I lean against my sister's shoulder. "I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice."

"Sure it does," Izzy tells me. "But only if you're too dumb to move. ~ Jodi Picoult

You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character. ~ Ray Romano

People think living in your parents' basement until you're twenty-nine is lame. But what they don't realize is that while you're there, you save money on rent, food, and dates. ~ Ray Romano

Developing a series is a next step for me. ~ Christy Romano

There are terrible living conditions and unhappiness, (even) where everybody is Italian. ~ Romano Prodi

Our continents unification is at hand and we must stand to account. ~ Romano Prodi

There will never be a good time, financially, to get married, unless you're Shaq or Ray Romano. But somehow people manage. If your man is using money as an excuse not to marry you, it's your relationship that's insecure, not his bank account. ~ Greg Behrendt

I'm always giving myself the Alzheimer's test. My shrink told me to do this. It takes one minute. You name every word that comes to mind that begins with the letter F. ~ Ray Romano

The problem of Italy is not really a question of age. Japan has an older population, and it is now in full economic recovery. The problem is that Italy is old in the structure of the society. ~ Romano Prodi

You know, before I would think, my cab driver hates me. Now I think my limo driver hates me. ~ Ray Romano

I don't think men talk as much as women, but when we have something on our minds we'll get it out. ~ Ray Romano

I would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out. ~ Ray Romano

I just don't want to play the same guy again over and over. ~ Ray Romano

If I have sex, I know my quarterly estimated taxes must be due. And if it's oral sex, I know it's time to renew my driver's license. ~ Ray Romano

I have the show because I'm insecure. It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience. ~ Ray Romano

And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office. ~ Christy Romano

Moreover, resolving the mother of all problems - the Israeli-Palestinian question - requires cooperation between Europe and the U.S. ~ Romano Prodi

Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power - not just a trading bloc, but a political entity? ~ Romano Prodi

After 'Raymond,' there was this big feeling of, 'What do I do next?' ~ Ray Romano

You're not hiding, but you're sitting in a gay bar at dinnertime. You're not hiding, but you're wearing that suit like it's armor. ~ Jodi Picoult

Pirenne was quite right that the ancient trading economy continued after the first invasions and the establishment of the mixed Romano-barbarian successor kingdoms. Some kind of connectivity by sea endured continuously, even if at very low levels (Horden and Purcell 2000). ~ Henri Pirenne

For the sake of your marriage, get a king-size bed. And if you really want to stay married, get two. ~ Ray Romano

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis. ~ Ray Romano

I was wracked with insecurity. ~ Ray Romano

Our asylum system is sick. ~ Romano L. Mazzoli

My career has been my craziest adventure. ~ Ray Romano

I don't want to be a spokesman for family values, but that's the way my standup is perceived. ~ Ray Romano

The Italian economy is certainly the weakest of the big European countries. ~ Romano Prodi

The cool part about working for Disney is that they've allowed me to be a change agent. ~ Christy Romano